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Townhall
The President
and 'Violent Extremism'
Dennis Prager
Feb 24, 2015
Regarding Islamic violence -- the greatest world evil since Nazism and
Communism -- the president of the United States, his administration,
and the left generally live in a make-believe world, a world of denial.
In their world, Islam is today, and has always been, a religion of
peace; Muslims are threatened by Islamophobia; Christians are wiped out
by "violent extremists;" European cartoonists incite radical Muslims to
murder them; fundamentalists of all religions are equally problematic;
the hundreds of millions of Muslims who support violent Islamists have
nothing to do with Islam, but the Inquisition was conducted by
normative Christians; and slavery was defended in the name of Christ,
but no mention is made of the far more ubiquitous (and ongoing) slavery
in the name of Allah or of the fact that the movement to abolish
slavery in the West was due entirely to Christians.
Nothing better reflects those Orwellian beliefs than President Barack
Obama's speech last week at the conclusion of the absurdly named Summit
on Countering Violent Extremism.
President Obama: "With the brutal murders in Chapel Hill of three young
Muslim Americans, many Muslim Americans are worried and afraid.
The president made this comment -- at the beginning of his address --
despite the fact that there is not a shred of evidence that the three
young Muslims were killed because they were Muslim…
Read the rest of the article at Townhall
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